Short Windfalls Poems

Windfalls of apples,
dull reds and brown leaf
scattered amongst
the creeping mist
that filters through
the wily woven web of spiders,
laying in wait
unknowing of the migration
that followed the sun...!

© Harry J Horsman 2012...

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A litany of leaves tango
to the tune of your chilly flow,
so windblown.

Moody clouds move silently by
in a turbulent silver sky,
as windfalls.

Showing signs of your wrath, the trees,
to whipping the waves of the seas,
so windswept.

© 2014 Connie Marcum Wong
11-16-14
WIND - Compound Word Verse...

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   Sunlight and shadows
   White clouds drifting by
   An old apple tree
   Birds of a feather
   Scavenging windfalls.

   Barefeet on grass
   Cool leather seat
   Glass table top
   Sunshade retreat.

   Urban noise
   Church clock chimes
   Lunch Bell rings.

   Hot spiced
   Garlick 

   Wings.
   

   12/ 5 / 2024.
   
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The windfalls
have been trod and gnawed upon.
A sweet sludge of pith
is spread across a ripe carpet
of cider scented soil.

Here in late autumn,
an amber painted orchard
is the heady mulch of a waning sunlight.

The unburdened branches,
now are open spaces, tunnels,
for the tangy tongues of drinking winds.

Blight tinted apples dwindle
within mossy cups of time,
still deliciously edible
for the ever-hungry earth....

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Ribbed  strands of wheat across the plain
bend at the knees, to drink the rain
in windfalls
Brown from harvest, drought and blight,
are cornstalks spinning through the night
like windmills
The dry stalks slant and dangle leaves
and rattle music through the trees
in windstorms




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Written for Nette's Contest: Fire, Earth, Wind
By Carrie Richards 11/20/14...

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